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SEYMOUR H. ROSENBERG, OF NEW' HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

MACHINE FOR SHAPING CORSETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,414, dated October 27, 1885,

Application filed February 9, 1885. Serial No. 155,335.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SEYMOUR H. ROSEN- BERG, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Machines for Shaping Corsets; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a front view of the machine, showing the part of the corset introduced through the former, broken lines indicating the pressers as having forced the corset over the former; Fig. 2, a vertical central section of the machine, cutting through the former; Fig. 3, a transverse section over the pressers; Fig. 4, amodifieation on the shape of the pressers to adapt them to press a whole corset. Fig. 5 represents at J one half the corset before shaping, and I the same half after shaping.

This invention relates to the construction of a machine to mechanically shape or press corsets or parts of corsets; and the invention consists in the construction of the machine, as hereinafter described, and more particularly recited in the claim.

In illustrating my invention I show it as constructed to give the fullness and shape to the hip portion.

A represents the bed of the machine, from which rise two uprights, B B, carrying a vertical slide, C, which is arranged to be operated by a hand-lever, D, or otherwise. On the bed between the uprights and beneath the slide a former, E, is arranged. This former is of the shape required for that part of the corset which is to be shaped or pressed. It is made hollow and adapted for the admission of steam, say, through a pipe, F, so that the former may be heated and the heat maintained. To the slide above two pressers, a a, are hung, by spring-arms G, the pressers adapted to pass down, oneeaehsidetheformer. Supplemental springs H are applied to each of the pressers, the tendency of the springs being to force the pressers toward the former, and when in their raised or normal condition they stand above the former, and nearer together than the width of the former. The pressers are made from (No model.)

rubber or other elastic yielding material, and so that as they are forced down, as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 1, they will bear upon the surface of the former, and as they follow downward will separate and follow the surface of the former. The former represented in Figs. 1 and 2 is designed to give the rounding fullness to the hip portion I, Fig. 5, J representing the part of the corset before being shaped or pressed. The part of the corset to be shaped is laid over the former, and below the pressers. as indicated at d, Fig. 1. Then the pressers are brought down upon the corset by forcing it upon the former, and because of the frictional holding-surface of the pressers they draw the part down close over the former and, yielding, adapt themselves to the shape of the former, so that the corset part is drawn down firmly and evenly upon the former, and so that the corset, being dampened before it is applied, and held upon the former until substantially dry, it retains the shape of the former, as seen at I, Fig. 5, which is the ultimate shape for that part. A whole corset may be pressed in the same manner by making the former E to correspond to the whole corset, and so that the two parts of the corset, united by the clasps at the front, laid over the former the rear edges respectively to the right and left, the pressers then brought down upon the former, say, shaped substantially as seen in Fig. 4, will draw the corset over the former, and give to it the required shape, pressing and finishing its surface. The yielding or frictional surface of the pressers enables them to take such a hold upon the surface of the corset as to force it hard upon the former. The surface of the pressers naturally adhering close to the fabric of the corset do not permit the corset to slip or escape, but draw it thereon. The result is better and the shape and finishing more readily attained by the use of these adhering or frictional pressers than can be attained by any drawing device applied to draw the corset upon the former.

The illustration will be sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to which this invention pertains to adapt the machine to the pressing and shaping of individual parts of the corset, or other articles of fabric and kindred materials which require such shaping.

I am aware that machines for shaping articles have been constructed, consisting of a former combined with reciprocating springpressers arranged to work upon opposite sides of said former under such reciprocating movement to rub or shape the article down upon the former, and therefore do not claim, broadly, such construction.

I claim The combination 'of a hollow former, E,

adapted to receive steam or hot water therein, its outer surface corresponding to the shape of the part of the corset to be pressed, said former stationary, a slide arranged in guides to reciprocate in aplane transverse to the SEYMOUR H. ROSENBERG.

Witnesses:

JOHN E. EARLE, Jos. (3. EARLE. 

